The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-27
THE o. & n.
No Public Announcement Made Of
Change in Time.

A week has passed since definite and
reliable announcement was made that
the matter of affording more salts
factory railway accommodations for
the people on the line of the
Utah and Northern was being
considered. To this time no public
knowledge obtains of any determination
on the part of railway officials to afford
the relief so necessary and so unques-
tionablY just to the people OF Northern
Utah and Southern Idaho. A report
seemingly well founded, was in under
current circulation on Friday night
that by December LIST, special train
would be put on for the convenience of
local patrons of the Utah and Northern.
This train, it was reported, would leave
Ogden every morning on the arrival of
the 8:03 train from Salt Lake, and make
good run say hours and 40 minutes
to Battle Greek, and return to Ogden
the same night. If this report be
true, it will give a great impetus
to the traffic to Logan, which
! is even now the best paying business on
| the line. and it would give impetus,
! because travellers could leave Salt Lake
in the morning, reach Logan about
noon, spend all the way from three to
six hours there, and if necessary or
desirable return to Salt Lake the same
night.
| Under the present arrangements it
takes four days for letter from Salt
Lake to go to Logan and the answer to
return to this city. Four days for the
mails On the line of railroad to travel
less than 200 miles. There Is little doubt
that the officials will make change, but
the hardships of the new time card on
which trains run is quadrupled by the
severity of winter, which seems to have
started in dead earnest, and certainly if
relief is to be offered patrons of the Utah
& Northern it cannot come too soon.
The announcement that the report OF a
special train to be run from Ogden daily
to Battle Creek and return will be
hailed with infinite satisfaction by all
persons, trainmen and travellers, almost,
we believe, without exception. 4
more universally unpopular move
than the changing to its present coudi-
ton of the Utah & Northern time table
has hardly ever been done by the Union
Pacilc, and this is saying a good deal.
If the management of the Utah &
Northern could see the letters OF which
The HERALD is in receipt complaining
of the time of running trains and hear
the indignation of prominent and
valuable patrons of the road, they
would require little farther proof to
convince them that the putting on of a
special local train would be as popular
as the change made in the time on the
18th inst. was unpopular.
! What gives basis to the report that
special train is to be put on and run as
stated is the staten ent-and it is re-
liable-that word was sent to train men
in Logan to interview business men in
that city as to what they wanted in the
way of accommodation and trains
would be carded to suit the general de-
sire. 1t is hardly probable that the
general desire has not been voiced and
| if il has, and the offer holds good, we
may expect any day to hear that the
report above quoted is correct and that
a special tram will carry the mails
north in the morning and hurry
passengers on. This local train once
on, and Cache Valley will hardly have
grievous cause for complaint, as the
traffic from settlement to settlement
will be amply provided for.